Hosea 1:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avengea the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. ”

Hosea 1:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Call his name Jezreel - that is, in its first sense here, “God will scatter.” The life of the prophet, and his union with one so unworthy of him, were a continued prophecy of God’s mercy. The nam...
Hosea 1:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name (e) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of (f) Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of...
Hosea 1:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Marriage: a Parable of Yahweh's Relations with Israel. The prophet receives a Divine command to take ( i.e. marry) a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom. The reason given for this st...
Hosea 1:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jezreel. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6) between Israel ( Hosea 1:1 ) and Jezreel (Hebrew. Yisra'el and Yizr! eel). The name is prophetic of coming judgment (see Hosea 1:5 ) an...
Hosea 1:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It now follows, the wife conceived, — the imaginary one, the wife as represented and exhibited. She conceived, he says, and bare a son: then said Jehovah to him, Call his name Jezreel. Ma...
Hosea 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while , and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel....
Hosea 1:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Call his name Jezreel— For the honourable name of Israel is too good for this people. Call them therefore Jezreel, a people devoted to dispersion, and such as I will scatter unto the four winds...
Hosea 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israe...
Hosea 1:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Marriage and its Lessons 1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2-9 . The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them. Hosea 1:1...
Hosea 1:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jezreel means “God shall sow.” The prophet had already discovered the faithlessness of his spouse, and that his married life was symbolic of his nation’s history. Observe the resemblance in sound b...
Hosea 1:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL WIFE Hosea 1:1-11 ; Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 IT has often been remarked that, unlike the first Doomster of Israel, Israel's first Evangelist was one of themselves,...
Hosea 1:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God Gathers the Outcast Hosea 1:1-11 The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose earlier life had been unchaste. From this marriage re...
Hosea 1:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The statement with which this prophecy opens, "When the Lord spake at the first," is a declaration by Hosea long after the events. Looking back, he understood that the impulse which resulted in the h...
Hosea 1:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Some have thought, that what is here said of Hosea, was in vision, and not in reality. But others have deemed it to be literally as is here stated. In either sense, the doctrine is the same. God inte...
Hosea 1:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord said unto him call his name Jezreel ,.... Which some interpret the "seed of God", as Jerom; or "arm of God", as others; and Kimchi applies it to Jeroboam the son of Joash, who was stron...
Hosea 1:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel....
Hosea 1:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the Lord said, Call his name Jezreel This name, compounded of the nouns זרע seed , and אל, God , signifies the seed of God. The names, it must be observed, imposed upon the woman's children...
Hosea 1:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Marriage; Threatenings against Israel; Intimation of Mercy to Judah. B. C. 768. ...
Hosea 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And the Lord said unto him, Hosea the prophet, who as in taking to wife an adulteress, so in giving name to his son by her, was to presignify Israel's future calamities. Call his name, thy son now...
Hosea 1:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Wife And Children Are To Be A Sign Of The Unfaithfulness Of Israel ( Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 2:5 a). There is no reason in chapter 1 for seeing Gomer's ‘whoredom' as being anything other tha...
Hosea 1:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Hosea 1:3 . Gom.] The name of a nation ( Genesis 10:2-3 ); symbolically G. = completion; i.e. completely given up to whoredom. Dib .] = daughter of grape-cakes, indicating pleas...
Hosea 1:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:1 . Hosea, the son of Beeri. The prophets named their parents, not only to distinguish themselves from others of that name, but to mark that they were sons of prophets, or that their fathe...
Hosea 1:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Call his name Jezreel. Judgment on the house of Ahab Jezreel means, the child of guilt; therefore not Israel, but Jezreel (or more exactly, Izreel). The name is referred to for its historical a...
Hosea 1:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 1:1 The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri. The prophets are divided into the former ( rishonim, Zechariah 1:4 ) prophets and the later prophets. T...
Hosea 1:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel to be Rejected on Account of its Idolatry
Hosea 1:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 5:25 ; 1 Chronicles 5:26 ; 2 Kings 15:10-12 ; 2 Kings 15:29 ; 2 Kings 17:6-23 ; 2 Kings 18:9-12 ; 2 Kings 9:24 ; 2 Kings 9:25 ; Ezekiel 23:10 ; Ezekiel 23:31 ; Hosea 2:13 ; H...
Hosea 1:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The blood — The slaughters made by Jehu's hand or by his order, in Jezreel. The house of Jehu — Which had now possessed the throne, through the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jeroboam; but the us...

Hosea 1:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 1:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 1:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 1:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 1:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 1:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 1:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 1:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 1:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 1:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 1:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 1:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes